At UVA’s Center for Politics, Larry Sabato has built a global reputation for analyzing and explaining this country’s political trends. He thinks Democrats have done Joe Biden a great favor by winning two seats in the U.S. Senate. “Democrats have all three pieces of at least the elected branches that one needs to get things done," he explained at a recent forum on the web. As part of UVA’s new online talk show, “Democracy Dialogues,” Sabato invited several big names from political circles to join him in exploring the significance of Georgia’s vote.
(Podcast) Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center, discusses moves to remove Donald Trump, why impeachment is important even if it may not be achieved by Jan. 20, how recent events will change the Republican Party, and the risk of escalating violence.
Three UVA faculty members – Jessica Andrus, Jeffrey Grossman and Joel Rubin – are among the signatories.
(Commentary by Sabrina Mitchell of the UVA Cancer Center’s Office of Community Outreach and Engagement) Vaccine mistrust and hesitancy is not new. The World Health Organization named vaccine hesitancy as a top 10 global health threat in 2019, as vaccines are a cost-effective and successful way of avoiding disease.
Because of the rise in COVID-19 cases, the UVA Medical Center will ban visitors, with limited exceptions, effective Wednesday.
Within the first two years of the Kennedy administration, the Kennedy family became increasingly concerned about the prospects of Johnson in the Oval Office. They hatched a plan that would position Robert F. Kennedy, JFK's younger brother and attorney general, to take the White House following JFK's presidency, according to UVA’s Miller Center.
Faced with climate changes that are taking a toll on our shoreline, our forests and farms, Virginia has agreed to stop burning fossil fuels by 2050. To see if that’s actually possible and to explain what we’ll have to do over the next 30 years, UVA experts have produced a report called “Decarbonizing Virginia’s Economy.”
Following the 2000 election – about which, recall, there had been more than a little controversy – UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs conevenred the “blue-ribbon” National Commission on Federal Election Reform was convened to study and make recommendations about how to better administer the election process in America.
Rounding out the top five are the No. 2 UVA McIntire School of Commerce, No. 3 New York University’s Stern School of Business, No. 4 University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and No. 5 Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. McIntire was the only other winner of an individual category, taking first in academic experience, which is based solely on our student satisfaction survey of recent alumni. The school placed highly in our other two core metrics, earning third in admissions standards and sixth in employment outcomes.
UVA is leading the commonwealth’s new plan to improve mental health in K-12 students. A new statewide project called the Virginia Partnership for School Mental Health aims to strengthen school mental health services.
(By Ha Do Byon, assistant professor of nursing) As a former visiting nurse at one of New York City’s largest home health care agencies, I know firsthand what these caregivers face when they cross the threshold of a patient’s home. In the best situations, it’s a patient’s gratitude for coming to provide comfort, reduce isolation, and maybe even spark a little conversation. At other times, coming through that door provokes intense discomfort. Dread. Even danger and violence.
A model created by researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute predicts local numbers will continue to rise until the end of February. The forecast predicts that on the week of Feb. 21, Charlottesville will see 1,259 new confirmed cases. “In Charlottesville, cases are growing,” the researchers wrote. “However, viruses are difficult to forecast and this is just one potential path. One outbreak – or one outbreak avoided – can set us down a very different path. The future course of COVID-19 depends on all of us.”
“If I’m going to come out with a product that is vegan, it has to align with the same environmental values I have,” states Jaylah Koree Webb, a University of Virginia sophomore. At 19 years old, Webb has a passion for our planet, evident in her Global Studies major with a concentration in Environmental Sustainability, as well as for her minor in Entrepreneurship. Just a couple years ago, she started making her own vegan body products, such as lip balms and body butters, which would soon blossom into the small business known as Koree’s Kare.
UVA student-athletes are trying to keep their nonprofit, Run Your City, alive this year, even if they can’t meet in person. The group meets with children of various ages and backgrounds in the the Charlottesville area each week to introduce them to running and other sports.
Many fathers and mothers tell me they feel betrayed by their children’s lack of availability or responsivity, especially those who provided their children with a life they see as enviable compared with their own childhoods. As UVA sociologist Joseph E. Davis told me, parents expect a “reciprocal bond of kinship” in which their years of parenting will be repaid with later closeness.
By limiting the reach of religious freedom protections, the Do No Harm Act would make it harder for many people of faith to operate businesses, launch charities or share their beliefs in the public square, said Doug Laycock, a UVA professor of law and religious studies. “This bill would strip the heart out” of religious freedom law, he said.
The overwhelmed subsidy policy that took force after the earthquake meant that “today, practically, all the food consumed in Haiti is imported, including products such as sugar and rice, which were produced without the need for imports. ... We can say that the international community set out to prevent Haiti from being a successful experiment and so far it seems that this objective has been achieved,” Robert Fatton, UVA professor and author of several investigations on Haiti, told “BBC World” in 2020.
(Audio) Journalists struggle to find the words to describe what happened at the Capitol on Wednesday. Plus, why supporters of the president’s baseless election fraud theories keep invoking the “lost cause” myth of the confederacy. And, taking a second look at "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." Guests include Caroline Janney, UVA historian of the Civil War, on the evolution of the post-Civil War Lost Cause mythology; and Jack Hamilton, UVA associate professor of American studies and media studies, on the mixed and missed messages in the rock anthem "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," by ...
With President Donald Trump acknowledging president-elect Joe Biden’s victory, NBC 29 took a deeper look at the state of the Republican Party. “I think the party is relatively divided, and I think that’s what happens, usually, when a party loses the White House,” UVA Center for Politics Director of Communications Kyle Kondik said.
For the past several months, Gov. Lawrence Hogan has worked to elevate his national profile and is widely seen as taking steps toward a possible White House run in 2024. But UVA political science professor Larry Sabato told The Baltimore Sun last year that “the GOP would have to change drastically by 2024 for Hogan to have a real shot” at the party’s presidential nomination.